Auto Py To Exe

This project allows you to convert python scripts to executables with a simple interface. The interface uses chromes app mode and lists all possible flags for pyinstaller. The whole idea seems automatic as it cleans up after itself.

What is this?

This application displays a simple interface that allows you to convert py to exe easily. By just selecting the file, if you want it to convert to onefile and if you want a console, you will only need to press convert and wait for the script to do the rest.

The script is built using Eel and uses PyInstaller to convert the script.

Demo

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

Python : Python >= 2.7 ( including 3.7 🎉 )

To have the interface displayed in the images, you will need chrome. If chrome is not installed or --no-chrome is supplied, the default browser will be used.

You can run this project locally by following these steps:
1. Clone/download the repo
2. Open cmd/terminal and cd into the project
3. Execute python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Now to run the application, execute python -m auto_py_to_exe. A Chrome window in app mode will open with the project running inside.

Make sure you are in the directory below auto_py_to_exe (you will be after step 3) when calling python -m auto_py_to_exe or you will need to reference the folder auto_py_to_exe absolutely/relatively to where you currently are.

Using the Application

Select your script location (paste in or use a file explorer)

Outline will become blue when file exists

Select other options and add things like an icon or other files

Click the big blue button at the bottom to convert

Find your converted files in /output when completed

Easy.

Arguments

Alternatively you can execute auto-py-to-exe [filename]. This will open up the window with the filename in the script location.

You can also pass --no-chrome if you want to use your default browser and not chromes app mode; for example auto-py-to-exe --no-chrome my_script.py.

If you are running this package locally, you will need to call python -m auto_py_to_exe instead of auto-py-to-exe

Video

Issues Using the Tool

If you're having issues with the packaged executable or using this tool in general, I recommend you read my blog post on common issues when using auto-py-to-exe. This post covers things you should know about packaging Python scripts and fixes for things that commonly go wrong.

Screenshots

Response

I really wanted to get this project out there so I released a YouTube video demonstrating how to setup and use the interface (video above). A day later I made a post in the /r/Python sub reddit titled "Auto Py to Exe is Complete".
To my surprisement the next morning (about 7 hours) I had more than 300 upvotes which to me was a big thing. I had many replies which I took time to read and reply to. About 44 hours later the post finally lost it's top place on the subreddit and the post is sitting at 454 points with 12.1k views and 75 comments.
I can't believe how big this got and it means a lot to me when I saw people thanking me for the project. When the couple of issues came to the Github repo I realised people do care about this and I was quick to fix these.
Once again, thank you for the support; I loved making this project.